Perhaps it was pathetic to have kept it, and by extension to have wasted any time missing Ramesh, but he was all she'd known for a while.
-- Narrator (Chapter 6)

Importance: The author utilizes this moment in the narrative to illuminate Geeta’s idealization of her marriage to Ramesh. While her husband physically and emotionally abused her, she clings to the idea that he could have been loving if he were not an alcoholic. By conflating love and marriage, Geeta traps herself in isolation, even after his disappearance. She is willing to believe in Ramesh, instead of Saloni, because she was taught that love is connected to marriage, not friendship.

Even after her mother had passed, Geeta's thoughts of her were caged by her own lifespan.
-- Narrator (Chapter 7)

Importance: Shroff enacts this quotation in order to expand her thematic inspection of motherhood. While Geeta is glad that she does not have children, she is judged and ridiculed...